This feels like something at the level of the WebTiming APIs: it's
information that the browser should be exposing in manner that can read by
watir-webdriver via execute_script.

Simon


On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Jari Bakken <notificati...@github.com>wrote:

> selenium-webdriver does not provide any hooks for a client library to
> inject code at specific points in the loading process. I think an
> implementation using execute_script for this will always be
> unsatisifying, as a lot of errors would go unnoticed. Because of this, I
> would prefer to have it as a third-party gem and not part of
> watir-webdriver itself.
>
> Another approach that is worth exploring is the various Remote Debugger
> protocols, see e.g. 1 <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Remote_Debugging_Protocol>,
> 2<https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/debugger-protocol>and
> 3<https://www.webkit.org/blog/1875/announcing-remote-debugging-protocol-v1-0/>.
> Of course this doesn't help with IE at the moment (although one can hope
> that the protocol will be standardised in the future).
>
> A few other comments:
>
>    - execute_async_script is not faster, it blocks until the specified
>    callback is invoked. I don't think the performance overhead of this will be
>    significant.
>    - The API should not be global (Watir.errors) but on the browser
>    instance (Watir::Browser#javascript_errors would be my preference).
>
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